Grodzka Street, Kraków
# Grodzka Street, Kraków

Grodzka Street (Polish: Ulica Grodzka, lit. Gord Street) - one of the oldest streets in Kraków, Poland. Grodzka was part of a former north-south trade route. The street is part of the Royal Route, used by Polish kings to reach Wawel Castle. The earliest documents referencing its name date from the thirteenth-century.

Part of the street was destroyed by the Kraków Fire of 1850. In the later half of the 19th century, a tramway track was laid on Grodzka Street.

## Features

| Street No. | Short description |
| - | - |
| 40 | Stadnicki Palace - a nineteenth-century palace with a rococo façade. |
| 52 | Former Jesuit Collegium from the first quarter of the seventeenth century. The Jesuits opened a school here, as to compete with the Jagiellonian University. Presently, the building is home to the Collegium Broscianum of the Jagiellonian University. |
| 54 | Saints Peter and Paul Church - a Roman Catholic, Polish Baroque church, built in the early seventeenth-century. |
| 56 | St. Andrew's Church - a historical Romanesque church, built in the late eleventh-century as a fortress church used for defensive purposes. |
| 58 | St. Martin's Church - a Lutheran/Calvinist church, built in the first half of the seventeenth-century. |
| 65 | Gniezno Bishop's Palace - a palace from the seventeenth-century, rebuilt in the Classicist architectural style in the nineteenth-century. |
| 64 | Royal Arsenal - built in 1643. Presently, the building houses the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Jagiellonian University. |
| 67 | Church of St. Giles - a church built in the fourteenth-century. |
